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WILLIAM SCHILLINGER, OF SYRACUSE, NEW YORK.

DAMPENlNG-MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 641,650, dated January16, 1900. Application filed January 30, 1399. Serial No- 703,798. (Nomodel.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM SOHILLINGER, of Syracuse, in the county ofOnondaga, in the State of New York,have invented new and usefulImprovements in Dampening-Machines, of which the following, taken inconnection with the accompanying drawings, is a full, clear, and exactdescription.

My invention relates to dampening machines,and particularly to devicesfordampening collars upon the line of the fold for turning them forturn-down collars.

My object is to produce a machine for danipening both sides of thecollar after it has been starched and ironed out flat, preparatory tofolding it for a turn-down collar.

My device is adapted to dampen both sides of the starched and ironedcollar simultaneously, whereby bothfaces are made equally flexible forthe folding, comprising a slotted table, liquid-holding troughs aboveand below it, a train of rollers below the table, of which the primaryroller is partly immersed in the liquid and the ultimate roller projectsup through the table-slot. Another train of rollers has the primaryroller in the upper liquid-trough and the ultimate roller in position tobe swung so as to dampen the opposite side of the collar, being oppositeto the roller in the slot. Part of the upper train are mounted in aswing-frame, so that they can be raised or lowered, and means areprovided whereby said rollers are driven.

It is constructed as follows, reference being bad to the accompanyingdrawings,in which Figure 1 is a partly-sectional side elevation of themachine. Fig. 2 is a front elevation showing a modification. Fig. 3 is asectional detail of the lower trough, train of rollers, and aweighted-lever device for holding the rollers in contact. Fig. 4; is anenlarged sectional detail of a dampening and driving belt combined. Fig.5 is a sectional detail of a part of the swing-frame, illustrating thelink connection of the shafts.

A is the work-table, provided with a suitable slot 2 and supported inany suitable mau ner or upon legs 3, in which a drive-shaft 4: issuitably journaled and upon which the ultimate dampening-roller 5 issuitably mounted in contact with a primary roller 6, suitably journaledin the walls of the lower trough 7, mounted upon one of said legs. Theserollers constitute the lower train, the roller 6 being driven either byits frictional contact with the roller 5 or by a belt 8, as shown. Theposition of the lower roller 6 may be maintained by the weighted lever9, connected to the arbor or axle of said roller and fulcrumed upon theend of the trough.

By the gears 10the shaft 11 is driven, to drive the ultimate roller 12and the other rollers 13 14 15 of the upper train, the roller 15 beingpartlyimmersed in the upper trough 16.

A dampening-belt 17, more or less angular in cross-section, so as tomake a broad bearing on the body of the rollers and a narrow workingface, can be used as a member of one or both trains.

The shaft 11 is provided with a universal joint 18, whereby its outerend can be lowered, as by means of a rod or cord 19, connected to asuitable foot-treadle (not shown,) and raised bya spring 20,which iscompressed by its lowering.

Theroller 13 is mounted upon a shaft 21, mounted to rock in a bearing 22and connected to the shaft 11 by a link 23, creating a swing-framecarrying the rollers 12 and 13,and 24. is a spring operating to hold theroller 13 (or the belt) in contact with the roller 14 at all times.

It will be seen that when the swing-frame and roller 12 are depressedthe roller 12 and the roller 5 will engage with and dampen the oppositesides of the collar, creating a flexible and yielding folding-line of awidth substantially equal to the working faces of said roll ers, uponwhich line the collar can be folded without breaking or cracking and canbe bent readily upon a curve or circle to insure a proper fit upon theneck of the wearer. This fold can then be ironed in a suitable machineor by any means suitable for the purpose. It will also be seen that theshaft 4 can be driven byhand or by power applied in any other suitablemanner to the drive wheel or pulley 25.-

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-

In a collar-fold dampener the combination with a suitably support-edslotted table, a trough below said table, and a train ofdampening-rollers below said table, the ultimate roller of which extendsinto said slot, of a swing-frame above said table, a dampening deviceand a feed-roller carried thereby, a trough above the table, a train ofrollers of which said feed-roller is one, a spring holding saidfeed-roller in contact with the adjacontroller of the dampening deviceand means to drive said dampening devices and rollertrains. 10

In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 18th day of January,1899.

\VM. SCI'IILLINGER. Vitnesses:

M. M. NoTT, HOWARD P. DENISON.

